Help the Stark family peacefully mourn Sharla

After a surprise diagnosis last July and a short but fierce battle with cancer, Sharla left us Easter Sunday.

She leaves a loving husband and two small children who desperately miss her. They were her world and she fought valiantly to stay with them.

She was determined to live and during the months following her diagnosis she went to her cancer treatments and still tried to make life as normal as possible for her family: showing up at Meet the Teacher night in a wheel chair and helping them bravely face a tenuous future. She often told me that she needed to be there for their next birthdays and wanted to see them grown.

A few days before she passed, she mourned the unopened and unplayed board games from Christmas and hoped to be able to play them together soon.

She went through extreme physical pain and anguish and is now at peace with her loving Heavenly Father.

A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she was happy to attend the dedication of the Orem Utah Temple with her family. She felt the Lord was watching out for her as she was seated in soft chairs, easing her hurting back. Her pain was minimal during that special time with her family.

She has faith that her family will be together forever and left that beautiful memory with them.

Though she passed on Easter Sunday, we choose to think of it as a reminder that eventually "The sting of death is swallowed up in Christ " Mosiah 16:18.

Despite being an eternal family, they still need help with funeral expenses and medical bills. Please consider helping at this difficult time.

— written by a close friend, Cami Kenworthy